Great Throughts Treasury

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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton

English Economist

"In the long run... we are all dead."

"Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency."

"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. I do not know which makes man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."